BETTY BOOP, the original Pin-Up Girl!Still hot after 93years. Barbie,take notes!

Betty could teach Barbie a thing or 2! Still here & still in style, after 93 years! The enduring image of Betty is a flapper in a strapless minidress, with a garter peeking out above her knee and large hoop earrings in her ears. Beneath that iconic look, however, is a more complex story of aesthetic transformation, from what Heather Hendershot, a media historian at MIT, describes as a “flapper-secretary-adventurer” in the early 1930s to a “middle-class homemaker” by the end of the decade. Betty’s appearance continues to evolve today, with the character donning ripen jeans, joggers and sneakers, and overalls in merchandise and on social media. Her constantly shifting design offers an intriguing case study of how representations of women—including fictional ones—are shaped by censorship, the public’s response and changing conceptions of morality. Emily Wishingrad. And besides the aesthetics, there is the less-known facts of Betty B’s inspiration: Esther Jones. Read her story above in the pictures.